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.::The Times of my Life::.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Happy New Year!

I just finished making some white choc macadamia nut cookies. Am now whipping out some taquitos for a late lunch/early dinner. Got chips n dips n soda and those cookies I made. Going over to a friends house to spend the evening. I got to use my cookie scoop for the first time. Was sweet! My cookies were the same size! and cooked the same. No done ones next to raw ones. I love kitchen doodads.
The kitchenwares aisle is not a good place for me lol. I want half of it.

I want to tell you all that I hope and pray that your upcoming year is better and brighter then the last. Love much, smile lots, and enjoy every morning.

posted by Kristina @ |2:47 PM| 5 comments

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Friday, December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas!

I hope you alls day is as great as ours. I have a princess bride fairy running around playing with a wooden doll house with her sister who has rhinestone butterfly glued to her cheek and is wearing a pair of undies over her diaper. 2 boys playing a ispy wii game with daddy. and another boy infatuated with his new tech toy. A cell phone. don't fear Santa set up parental controls on it. No overages there. He also got a gift card to go see new moon. He is taking me with him. =) Kian is nursing and I am about to go fix n steam my tamales up. Then i will make artichoke dip and we will be jammin! Got movies galore to watch. Its a fabulous day. Love to all.

posted by Kristina @ |1:16 PM| 1 comments
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Christopher Pop-In-Kins

Santa clause and all of his little elves make their home in a far away land called the North Pole...

That is how the book started that appeared on our kitchen counter this morning. It was the story of a little elf named, you guessed it, Christopher Pop-In-Kins. It told us how he went to Santa and wished to get to see children. After some thinking Santa made him the first ever children's elf.
Sometime after Thanksgiving he gets to go out and watch the children. Though there are some rules. He has to be very careful about where he hides, as the children must be able to find him but they can not touch him. For if they touch him he has to pop back to Santa at the North Pole to have his magic restored. So he must hide high up on shelves and things like that.
He also has to be back by Christmas Eve so he can report to Santa about how the children behaved.
After reading this fabulous story to the kids we wondered if he might of popped in to our house like his book did. And the kids went on a hunt. Sure enough they found him! He was sitting atop the entertainment center! Just like the book said they giggled and laughed and were very excited to see him. After a while they got to playing and suddenly he was gone! They looked everywhere for him and finally found him sitting on the valance above the sliding glass doors. Throughout the day he made it all over. He was on the fridge and even in the alcove above the closet in the entry.
We will be very sad when he pops out tomorrow sometime. But I think we will be very excited if he chooses to come back next year.

He made not a sound
But we knew he was there;
The children just giggled
and searched everywhere.
Up on the mantle
Atop the bookshelf,
High on the draperies;
Now where is that elf?

The book that was on our counter when we woke up.

Him when he was in the alcove.

close up

Where he popped to sometime before I went to bed.
He is a very cute elf. I hope he pops in on you sometime next year too.

This post contains excerpts from the book Christopher Pop-In-Kins by Flora Johnson.

posted by Kristina @ |10:23 PM| 2 comments

stuff

Some pictures from Kiara's winter show
Here they are getting ready to open and then opening their gift exchange presents. It was a secret kinda thing where everyone turned in a present beforehand and they doled em out to those that turned em in.

isn't she beautiful.

I didn't get any pictures of her on stage as I took video of it. But i think if I post it here it will lock up the site for those dial upers So I will link to it and you can click it if you so desire.
http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y278/emraldize/dec-09/?action=view&current=KrisCamera015-1.flv
And if you can't tell right of the bat which ones Kiara, well I will just be very disappointed! They are soo stinking cute. Especially mine who was way more intrigued by her teacher behind the curtains then the one she was suppose to be watching out front. What a doll

So the other day I tried my hand at home made pasta.

I mixed it

kneaded it

rested it

rolled it out and sliced it. Using my fancy smancy wooden rolling pin and pizza slicer.

all sliced up

drained

and served.
I was rather impressed with myself. Jarod Kenny and I enjoyed it. I can't wait till I can afford a pasta maker to roll and slice my dough for me. I will attempt more then and hey it will probably even cook evenly then as it'll be sliced evenly. It tasted good, like pasta lol. So many flavors you can make with pasta. Can't wait to try another.

Made caramel yesterday

Delicious

though its now almost half gone lol.

posted by Kristina @ |10:00 PM| 3 comments
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

prayer request

for Marks wife Amanda, she was hospitalized last night with some bad hemorrhaging. She had emergency surgery and is now on pit and blood clotters and all kinds of fun stuff and unable to nurse the baby or anything. Keep them in your thoughts n prayers.

posted by Kristina @ |4:56 PM| 1 comments
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Friday, December 11, 2009

Homeade Marshmallow creme

Ingredients:

2 cups sifted confections sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 egg whites
2 cups light corn syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla extract

In large bowl, combine egg whites, syrup and salt. Beat for 10 minutes until thick.
At low speed, add confectioners sugar. Add vanilla extract and beat until blended. Makes two quarts.

Enjoy.

posted by Kristina @ |4:23 PM| 0 comments

Video

of Kian cooing

posted by Kristina @ |10:11 AM| 0 comments

More photo's

These are the ones I've taken with my phone lately.

sucking his thumb lol

some cookies I made

my binky thief

kiara trying to learn how to go under a "bridge" of arms while she is part of the bridge lol. you know holding hands and spinning back to back

was hysterical watching her

more of her asleep on Kian

the cushion of leaves we came home to after Thanksgiving, they were like 3 inches thick

what was left on the tree

beautiful

while sitting at the dentist (Jarod has no cavities) I noticed Kiara has a chunk o hair shorter then her bangs. Sigh. Still don't know for sure who did it. I am leaning towards her though.

So the other day Kiara starts laughing and says mommy look at Leila. I look and see

yup she got into my address labels

and wouldn't stand still

so i could take a picture

which is why they

are all so stinking blurry

she is sooo funny. Love her lots
the other day whiles it was freezing here (literally 20 degrees out there)I went to wally world at 8 in the am. and as i was leaving i noticed that they had left a set of sprinklers on ALL night. there was a huge puddle of slush and this

beautiful inch thick ice covered plants while prob not very good for the plants it was very pretty.

Yesterday I wanted rice crispy treats bad. I pulled out my jar o marsh creme and discovered it expired in MAY! So I, not wanting to go to the store, searched the web for marsh creme recipes and found 1 that looked appealing and made this

a giant bowl o marsh creme, which Kenny tells me tastes better then the jar stuff.

made my treats and had a ton left over so i made this

which was covered by this

and looked like this once cut into

quite tasty.
I also discovered how to make powdered sugar as I needed some and didn't realize I was out until i was already halfway through.

the smiley guy pics from my phone

I took a video of him too will post that separate so as to not make this that much longer a load lol.

posted by Kristina @ |9:23 AM| 3 comments
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

My silly

smiley guy

Leila

Look!

in case you can't see it

she fell asleep holding his binky in his mouth lol.

a dad and his babies

so the other night when i put Cay to bed he told me his nose was stuffy. i told him he was catching our cold and put him to bed. A couple hours later when we were getting ready to go to bed, Kenny comes in laughing and tells me i have to go look at cay....
I went

and saw

this

yes, he put tissues in his nose to "stop" the snuffling.

Crazy kiddo.
more to come

posted by Kristina @ |4:32 PM| 3 comments
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